And it was in the year the ninth of of his reign, in the tenth new moon, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, came, he and all his force, against Jerusalem, and encamped against her,
and he built against her a siege-wall round about.

And the city was split, and all the men of the battle in the night, by way of the gate between the walls, by the king's garden. And the Chaldeans were against the city round about,
and they went by way of the steppe.

And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, (this was year nineteen of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel)
Nebuzaradan, the overlord of the slaughterers, a servant of the king of Babel, entered Jerusalem.

Eighteen cubits, the height of the one pillar, and encircling it brass, and the height of the capital, three cubits, and a mesh, and pomegranates against the capital surrounding, the whole of brass,
and like these of the second pillar over the fretwork.

And from the city, he took one eunuch, (he was an officer over the warriors), and five persons from those who saw the presence of the king, that were found in the city, and the secretary, chief of the host who pressed into service the people of the land,
and sixty adults from the people of the land that were found in the city.

When all the chiefs of the forces, they and their soldiers, heard that king of Babel had entrusted Gedoliah, they came to Gedoliah at Mizpah,
both Yishmaeil, child of Nathaniah, and Jochanan, child of Qareiach, and Saraiah, child of Tanhumeth, the Netophatite, and Jaazaniah, child of the Maakatite, they and their soldiers.

And it happened in the seventh month, Yishmaeil, child of Nathaniah, child of Elishama, from the seed of royalty, came, and ten persons with him, and they struck Gedoliah and he died,
and the Judeans and the Chaldeans who were with him in Mizpah.

And it happened in the thirty seventh year of the exile of Jehoiakin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty seventh of the month,
Evilmerodak, king of Babel, in the year he became king lifted up the head of Jehoiakin, king of Judah, from the house of restraint.